Community-based programs for asylum seekers are grossly underfunded, while detention and surveillance are expanding. By Maurizio Guerrero , This story was originally published at Prism. CW: This article contains descriptions of violence and mentions of suicide. Community-based programs […]
Arkansas Circuit Judge: Mumia Abu-Jamal Should Be Freed https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2022/12/14/mumia_abu_jamal_new_evidence “Abu-Jamal was wrongfully prosecuted, wrongfully convicted, wrongfully sentenced and is now wrongfully incarcerated.”By Amy Goodman , DEMOCRACYNOW!PublishedDecember 14, 2022 This Friday, Mumia Abu-Jamal faces what could be his last […]
Evidence suggests the prosecutor in Mumia’s trial bribed star witnesses to testify and wrongly excluded Black jurors. By: Marjorie Cohn , TRUTHOUT Award-winning journalist and author Mumia Abu-Jamal has been in prison for 41 years in a case […]
Multiple U.S. cities have adopted a definition of antisemitism that silences Palestinians and expands surveillance. By Danya Zituni , TRUTHOUT In multiple cities across the U.S., the right-wing push for new laws to silence criticism of Israel for […]
Al Jazeera Sues Israeli Forces at the International Criminal Court The lawsuit comes after an investigation that Al Jazeera says uncovers new evidence in the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.By Julia Conley , COMMONDREAMSPublishedDecember 6, 2022 Following an […]
As energy bills — and fossil fuel profits — soar, demonstrators demanded immediate action from PM Rishi Sunak.By Kenny Stancil , COMMON DREAMS People in dozens of cities across the United Kingdom hit the streets on Saturday […]
Leaders of Brazil and Australia are also urging dismissal of U.S. charges against Julian Assange.By Marjorie Cohn , TRUTHOUTPublishedDecember 4, 2022 In a stunning development earlier this week, The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, DER SPIEGEL and El País signed […]
2 more deaths: Israeli sniper shoots girl, 16, in head; 59-yr-old dies from wounds CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Left: Jana Zakarna, 16, killed December 11, 2022; right: Taiseer al-Ja’bari, 50, died December 9. (IAK) An Israeli sniper shot a […]
CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Photo tweeted by Palestinian-American journalist Mariam Barghouti on May 10, 2021. The next day Twitter suspended her account. (photo) In 2021 the Columbia Journalism Review reported that analysts believed Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram were deliberately censoring […]
CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Twitter logo superimposed on a photo to symbolize Twitter’s censorship of Palestinian content. The photo is of a Palestinian boy sitting amid the rubble of his destroyed house in the Gaza Strip on September […]